In the House of Commons yesterday, the Prime Minister (Mr. Asquith) moved for a credit of £300,000,000. He said the total credit amounted to £1,350,000,000 during ...
Article : 1,180 wordsThe Athens correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph Agency reports that as a result of the Allies ultimatum, the Greek Fleet surrendered to the Allies ...
Article : 562 wordsA communique issued yesterday evening stated:—"We captured on Monte Pasubio to-day the whole of a close network of entrenchments, and took 530 prisoners. We ...
Article : 241 wordsMr. J. J. Higham, of Fremantle has received word that his son Ernest has been promoted to commission rank. Lieut. Higham left Fremantle as a private in ...
Article : 193 wordsTo-day in Adelaide 18 men volunteered, and 15 were accepted. ...
Article : 67 wordsA message from Washington states that Mr. Gerard has a brief interview with Count Von Bernstorff yesterday. ...
Article : 23 wordsThe German Foreign Office Budget shows that a sum of £10,000,000 was spent in the foreign Press propaganda during two years of the war. This sum included: £2,000,000 ...
Article : 46 wordsA German journal asserts that Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg's opponents have now a majority in the Reichstag, owing to the accession of a large section of the Centre ...
Article : 58 wordsThe recent decision of the Commonwealth Arbitration Court, providing increased pay for military staff clerks, has made it necessary to issue special regulations under ...
Article : 114 wordsThe hearing was continued before Mr. Barnett, S.M., to-day of the charge of treason preferred against 12 members of the I.W.W. organisation. ...
Article : 1,138 wordsThe German casualties, officially reported, up to September, total 3,556,000. They include:— 817,000 killed. ...
Article : 42 wordsYesterday evening's Austrian communique stated:—"The Italians in the Vippach region gained some ground to-day, but they were afterwards driven back. We took ...
Article : 31 wordsGeneral Akerescu has been appointed to the command of the Roumanian second army. General Christescu will take over the command of the Dobrudja forces. ...
Article : 30 wordsSpeaking in the Hungarian Diet yesterday, Court Karolyi stated that the cost of living for a family of five persons in Germany had increased during the war ...
Article : 150 wordsThe question of whether the Commonwealth Parliament has the power under the Trading with The Enemy Act to declare as an enemy firm one which is carrying ...
Article : 620 wordsIt is expected that the keynote of the American memorandum with regard to submarines will be insistence upon the protection of American lives and trade. ...
Article : 85 wordsThe "Daily Chronicle's" Paris correspondent says:—"After three weeks' quiet, the French south of the Somme won a brilliant victory battle at Bovent, which ...
Article : 354 wordsLetters from Austria states that 700 persons were killed as the result of strike riots in connection with the Steyr arms factory. ...
Article : 31 wordsThe Dutch steamer Bloomersdijk, which was sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic, was not carrying contraband, and she had no cargo for England. ...
Article : 36 wordsThe "Giornale d'Italig" suggests that there should be one supreme command of the Allies' armies, under a united staff, which should have power to transfer troops ...
Article : 45 wordsThe Norwegian Government is protesting against Germany's action in destroying Norwegian shipping, ignoring international law, and abandoning sailors in open boats ...
Article : 59 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 155 wordsA despatch received yesterday from Ganeral Sir Perc Lake, British Commander-in-Chief in Mesopotamia, covering the operations from January 9 to April 13, is a ...
Article : 301 wordsM. Venizelos visited the Entente representatives at Salonika yesterday. Later he reviewed 20,000 Greek revolutionary troops. ...
Article : 22 wordsM. Venizelos was interviewed in Athens on September 3 by Mr. G. J. Stevens, the special correspondent of the London "Daily Telegraph." ...
Article : 547 wordsThe following German communique was issued yesterday:—"The enemy to-day made numerous attacks extending far north of the Ancre. They established themselves on ...
Article : 79 wordsThe wheat trade is at a standstill waiting to see the effect of the Government's action. The Royal Commission has issued a circular to the trade announcing that ...
Article : 466 wordsThe publication of the regulation adopted by the Federal Executive Council to establish a moratorium in regard to mortgages has occasioned considerable comment ...
Article : 221 wordsA further batch of shares in Australian companies held by persons of enemy origin has been transferred to the public trustee by the Solicitor-General (Mr. Garran). The ...
Article : 53 words{No abstract available}
Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,051 wordsThe Army Council is speeding the combing out from the Civil Service of men eligible for the army. The newspapers give prominence to an official declaration, ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Marine Underwriters' Association declared the following war rates in force yesterday:—For all vessels except German, Austrian, and Turkish: Steamers— ...
Article : 86 wordsConsiderable resentment has been expressed at Ballarat as the result of Mrs. Sebo having received the following official letter:—"You are advised that the ...
Article : 201 wordsFollowing upon the issue of a Blue Book dealing with the erection of soldiers' huts by Sir John Jackson, Ltd., for which commission amounting to £170,000 was paid, ...
Article : 65 wordsVoluntary enlistment proceeded as usual yesterday, with the following result:—Offered, 21; accepted, 13; deferred, 8. ...
Article : 18 wordsA communique issued yesterday stated:— "In the coastal region of the Caucasus to-day we dislodged the Turks from the mountain slopes of Soga Cinardjik, and gained ...
Article : 42 wordsMr. and Mrs. Frank Cook, of Auburn, Glyde-street, Cottesloe Beach, have received a notification from the Defence Department that their son. Victor G. Cook, 51st ...
Article : 262 wordsIn the House of Lords yesterday, the Marquis of Lansdowne announced that the Government would introduce a Bill to enable soldiers sailors, and war workers ...
Article : 57 wordsThe German peace move is seen in the demand of the New York "Staats Zeitung" (which is practically Count Von Bernstorff's organ) that America should ...
Article : 157 wordsA French communique received from Salonika yesterday evening stated:—"The Allies captured to-day the first enemy lines on the heights to the west of Gevgheli. The ...
Article : 164 wordsIn the Legislative Council to-night Mr. Fo[?]es attacked the Government, which he declared had been a bosom friend of the I.W.W. Mr. Hamilton (Minister for Mines) ...
Article : 73 wordsYesterday Mr. M. L. Moss, K.C. (Acting Agent-General for Western Australia) presented to the War Office the Western Australian school children's gift of four motor ...
Article : 50 wordsThe Government has in a number of casses pranted allowances to the dependants of interned persons who were left without sufficient means of support. In order to ...
Article : 91 wordsPlease choose from the following download options:
Share this item on:
Print page as...
Testing
The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), Fri 13 Oct 1916, Page 7
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
With your Trove account you can: